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here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also know that there are two live witnesses, who are slated to testify tonight. capitol hill police officer who was injured, and the attack. also documentary filmmaker, who captured footage on january 6th that we will be seeing for the first time tonight. he is and that it with the pro trump paramilitary group, the proud boys that was a subject of a seditious conspiracy, federal felony indictmen ....
tonight, the january 6th hearings. good evening. thank you so much for being here with us tonight. we know that you have a lot of options for where to watch and how to watch tonight s hearing. it makes us all the more grateful that you have chosen to be here with us on msnbc. i m rachel maddo with joy reid. tonight is a big night for us. a big night for american democracy. we have had a few other instances in our modern history of big, public hearings. all the networks scuttling their schedules to air the proceedings live, but none of us have ever covered something quite like this before. the january 6th investigation is about the first time in american history that the transfer of power between presidents was not peaceful. tonight in the ornate cannon caucus room inside the u.s. capitol the january 6 ths investigators said they would give them a skralg amount. the investigators plan to show video footage from the attack that s never been seen by the public before, incl ....
Film several rallies in washington d. c., on december 11th, december the 12. and i learn that there would be a rally on the on january 6th. so my three colleagues and i came down to document the rally. according to the permits of the event, it was going to be a rally at the ellipse. we arrived at the mall and observed a large contingent of proud boys was marching towards the capitol. we filmed them and almost mellow up right for my colleagues. i documented the crowd turned from protesters, to rioters, to insurrectionists. i was surprised at the size of the group, the anger in the profanity. and, for anyone who didn t understand how violent that event was, i saw it, i documented it and i experienced it. i heard incredibly aggressive chanting, and i shared subsequently shared the footage with the authorities. i m here today pursuant to a house subpoena. ....
January six, 2021. good evening, chair, man my the best chair. thank you for the introduction. as they did in the winter 2020, i was working on a documentary. as part of that documentary, a film several rallies in washington d.c., on december 11th, december the 12. and i learn that there would be a rally on the on january 6th. so my three colleagues and i came down to document the rally. according to the permits of the event, it was going to be a rally ellipse. we arrived at the mall and observed a large contingent of proud boys was marching towards the capital. before i m them and almost immediately i was separated from my colleagues. i documented the crowd term from protesters, to rioters, to insurrectionists. i was surprised at the size of the group, the anger and the profanity. and, for anyone who didn t understand how violent that ....